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"Then why give up your platform, your housetop, whence you may do so much good? You are loved, venerated." Strelitski placed his palms over his ears. "Don't! don't!" he cried. "Don't you be the advocatus diaboli! Do you think I have not told myself all these things a thousand times? Do you think I have not tried every kind of opiate?
Such money as was indispensable for the endowment of research he earned by copying texts and hunting out references for the numerous scholars and clergymen who infest the Museum and prevent the general reader from having elbow room. In person he was small and bent and snuffy. Superficially more intelligible, Joseph Strelitski was really a deeper mystery than Gabriel Hamburg.
"I admit that scepticism is better than stagnation, but I cannot see why orthodoxy is the antithesis to Judaism Purified and your own sermons are doing something to purify it orthodoxy " "Orthodoxy cannot be purified unless by juggling with words," interrupted Strelitski vehemently.
Judaism is but a specialized form of Hebraism; even if Jews stick to their own special historical and ritual ceremonies, it is only Hebraism the pure spiritual kernel that they can offer the world." "But that is quite the orthodox Jewish idea on the subject," said Raphael. "Yes, but orthodox ideas have a way of remaining ideas," retorted Strelitski.
Culture is all very well doesn't the Talmud say the world stands on the breath of the school-children? but it has become a cant. Too often it saps the moral fibre." "You have all the old Jewish narrowness," said Strelitski. "I'd rather have that than the new Parisian narrowness the cant of decadence. Look at my cousin Sidney.
When my conscience was noisy, the advocatus diaboli used to silence it by saying, 'Oh, Strelitski'll take it for granted. You can never catch the advocatus diaboli asleep," concluded Raphael, laughing. "No," assented Strelitski. But he did not laugh. "Oh!" said Raphael, his laugh ceasing suddenly and his face growing long. "Perhaps the prize-distribution is over?"
"You need no conversion!" he answered passionately, abandoning without a twinge all those criteria of Judaism for which he had fought with Strelitski. "You are a Jewess not only in blood, but in spirit. Deny it as you may, you have all the Jewish ideals, they are implied in your attack on our society." She shook her head obstinately.
Think of the dishonesty of business, the self-seeking of public life, the infamies and hypocrisies of society, the prostitutions of soul and body! No, the Jew has yet to play a part in history. Supplement his Hebraism by what Hellenic ideals you will, but the Jew's ideals must ever remain the indispensable ones," said Strelitski, becoming exalted again.
"But I wear a white tie, too," said Raphael, his smile broadening in sympathy with the slow response on the girl's serious face. "That's not a trade-mark," she protested. "But forgive me; I didn't know Strelitski was a friend of yours. I won't say a word against him any more. His sermons really are above the average, and he strives more than the others to make Judaism more spiritual."
But Gronovitz, the Hebrew teacher, crypto-atheist and overt revolutionary, who read a Hebrew edition of the "Pickwick Papers" in synagogue on the Day of Atonement, was with Strelitski, and a bigot whose religion made his wife and children wretched was with the cautious Simon Gradkoski. Froom Karlkammer followed, but his drift was uncertain.
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